1
: the sport or business of catching fish
2
: a place for catching fish
Examples of fishing in a Sentence
The fishing was pretty good today.
I'm going fishing this weekend.
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The team also noted that both the fishing and leopard cats—which are both closely related to domestic felines—possessed only the short-type version of the androgen receptor gene.
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Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Guys took a break from baseball, too, fishing and hitting up the golf course.
—Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 30 May 2025
The family is from Chinandega, a rural region known for fishing and cattle ranching.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
Like the Halls, many Gulf Coast residents are anxious that after four hurricanes in two years — Idalia, Debby, Helene and Milton — another storm could deal a devastating blow to their small coastal communities, which have long relied on economies of fishing, scalloping, canoeing and visitors.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
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Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Guys took a break from baseball, too, fishing and hitting up the golf course.
—Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 30 May 2025
The family is from Chinandega, a rural region known for fishing and cattle ranching.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
Like the Halls, many Gulf Coast residents are anxious that after four hurricanes in two years — Idalia, Debby, Helene and Milton — another storm could deal a devastating blow to their small coastal communities, which have long relied on economies of fishing, scalloping, canoeing and visitors.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
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“Fishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fishing. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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